Posted on 12/25/2012 6:42:52 PM PST by zeestephen
Just what you see, pal.
I want one to mount in the bed of my pickup truck. No more tailgating!
The "porta-potties" look like dry bulk storage ISO standard shipping containers. Such are often used for portable, human habitable structures like construction site offices, control centers for military assets, &c. It's done for convenience because the ISO standardization makes it easy to transport by truck, train, air, or ship.
The "refrigerators" look like beer coolers. No seriously they look like power supplies for the Laser modules.
Looks like a good addition to "Iron Dome"!
In similar devices the primary laser is used to acquire the target and measure any diffraction (heat waves) that would affect aiming. Then adaptive optics are used to remove the diffraction when the main laser transmits a full power beam. So why is the primary laser 50% more powerful than the secondary?
Regards,
GtG
The Germans have been peaceful and set on business for decades but I wonder if they were motivated they could go all meanie again in short order. I remember years back when the French offered them nuclear weapons—they said thanks but no thanks. They said if they wanted one they could build there own—said they could put together an atomic bomb in less than a week! An H-bomb would take a month or so!!! I have noticed—even today—they have a sort of national arrogance. The French have it too but, save for cooking, they can’t back it up. The Germans can and do.
Ich bin ein Biglaser
Regards,
GtG
PS Q) What's the shortest German book?
A) The collected works of German humor...
I thought the one on the right looked like a gas barbie with eyes.
Anyone, BTW, see the newly-released DG 5 DVD set (in HD) of Wagner’s Ring, spectacularly staged and performed by the Met Opera over the last several years?
Simply amazing, IMO, even if one hates opera.
Knowing the Germans, the plans were probably from the 1940s, and they would have won the war had they used it, but Hitler didn’t like it so they shelved the plans. lol
I saw a documentary on some of the stuff the Germans were doing back then, and it was amazing to consider they were doing it during that time period. They were working on many things that were well ahead of their time. I’m just glad we got to most of their best scientists before the Russians did!
Yeah, seems like you’d have blooming problems, though if you’re talking low atmosphere (as with a typical drone) maybe the range is such that it’s not a problem. [shrug]
I went to Chicago to a building set up with Industrial Lasers and Break Presses, to learn how to run equipment that the company that I work for had bought. The guy there told as a story about an American Company that thought that they had made the worlds smallest drill bit, and was very proud of it, they sent this thing to Germany to bragg it up. The Germans sent it back with a hole drilled down the middle of the shaft.
Should read “Brake Presses”.
Well, these are Germans after all. They have their priorities........
Might be what the two power level shot is for, to blast open a clear shot in any weather.
Only angry sea bass were available.
It took me a while to find the CD set, believe I finally found one at Edward Hamilton discount booksellers. Thanks FReund!
That’s a great story, Husker.
ding ding ding ding ding!
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